Lake St' Clair Monitoring Inventory and Strategic Plan

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Lake St. Clair Monitoring Inventory and Strategic
Plan

• Ric Lawson
• Anne Sturm
• Great Lakes Commission
• Macomb/St. Clair Inter-County Watershed
  Management Advisory Group
• March 25, 2003

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Presentation Outline

• Project Goals/Methods
• Results of Monitoring Program Inventory
• Preliminary Gap Analysis
• Next Steps
• Discussion

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Overview

• Funded by U.S. ACOE and Macomb/St. Clair
  Inter-county Watershed Management Advisory Group
• Scope
• Lake St. Clair basin with a focus on U.S.
  monitoring
• Water quality, habitat, wildlife, land use,
  non-point source pollution, other measures of
  ecosystem health
• Includes federal, state, local, university, and
  nongovernmental organizations

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Goals

• Monitoring Program Inventory
• Web-based searchable database
• Monitoring Gap Analysis
• Based on comparison of needs assessment and
  monitoring program inventory
• Monitoring Strategic Plan
• Recommendations for future monitoring activities
  based on results of inventory and gap analysis

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Monitoring Inventory Methods

• Compilation of list of monitoring agencies with
  help from Project Management Team (PMT)
• Submission of monitoring program information via
  web-based surveys or phone interviews
• Feedback on inventory completeness from PMT and
  key monitoring agencies in the region
• Program managers asked periodically to update
  database entries and add recently begun
  monitoring programs.

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Monitoring Gap Analysis Methods

• Needs assessment already completed for LSC basin
• Gaps in monitoring identified by comparison of
  monitoring database to needs assessment

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Monitoring Strategic Plan Methods

• Workshop to gain feedback on inventory and gap
  analysis and make recommendations.
• Report documenting recommendations for future
  monitoring activities.

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Inventory Statistics

• 72 Agencies Contacted
• 36 Monitoring Agencies
• 69 Monitoring Programs
• Roughly 3000 Sampling Locations
• Based on geographic information from 28 programs

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Database Elements

• Contact Information
• Program Information
• Description title, description, websites,
  start/end dates, status, medium, category,
  parameters, frequency, of stations, data uses,
  data availability
• Geographic Description basins covered,
  municipalities, sampling locations
• Support funding, budget
• Data Collection and Storage Information
• Collection classification of collectors, of
  staff, training, sampling protocols, QA/QC?
• Storage data format, duration of storage

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Monitoring by Agency
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Type of MonitoringMedia
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Type of MonitoringCategory
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Lake St. Clair Basin Sampling Locations based on
28 programs
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Web-based Inventory

• Monitoring program information will be available
  and searchable via the web
• Searchable by geographic location, agency, type
  of monitoring, parameters, or any other database
  element

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Gap Analysis

• Comparison of monitoring database to needs
  assessment
• Comparisons at a number of levels
• Program description
• Geographic coverage
• Sampling parameters
• Frequency of sampling

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Preliminary Gap Analysis Program Description
Grouped to Monitoring Need
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Gap Analysis

• Monitoring need being addressed by 0-1 monitoring
  programs in initial analysis
• Assessing quality of habitat
• Storm water management
• Delisting areas of concern
• Identifying failing septic systems
• Quantifying atmospheric deposition
• Identifying pollutant sources
• Permit compliance
• Finding based on review of descriptive
  information only

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Gap Analysis

• For full-scale gap analysis, geographic scope and
  depth of monitoring program (parameters,
  sampling frequency) must be analyzed
• Refine broadly defined needs such as tracking
  TMDLs, delisting areas of concern, and failing
  septic systems

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Next Steps

• Development of online interface
• Formal gap analysis
• Report detailing recommendations for a Lake St.
  Clair basin monitoring strategic plan

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Timeline

• Online database April, 2003
• Gap Assessment April, 2003
• Draft Strategic Plan May, 2003
• Final Strategic Plan May, 2003

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Discussion

• Monitoring Inventory
• Is inventory an accurate depiction of monitoring
  activities?
• Gap Analysis/Strategic Plan
• What information is important to managers?
• How do we present findings so they are most
  useful to resource managers in the basin?